he was about 2 pounds skin and bones covered in fleas with a big hole and an abscess in one of his rear legs and so he scooped him up and we took him to the vet and he had emergency surgery he had a really rough 1st 10 weeks on the planet but it's been pretty sweet ever since ha . currently you were actually living through the 6th mass extinction of species so we are currently driving species to extinction at a rate that's about a 1000 times faster than the natural background rate of extinction. and a lot of people are unaware of this. 5 major mass extinctions obviously the last major mass extinction on the planet was the one that took out the dinosaurs right now we're living through what they called the anthropocene in anthropocene translates to the age of man it's where the human impact on our planet is so great

that we're actually changing the fossil record of our future so you know i try and reduce my carbon footprint as much as i can i drive an electric car the house that we're sitting in this paradisal or we're in and that's great and there are more and more people putting up solar panels and buying electric cars and going again and that's all good for the planet but as long as we're still adding a 1000000000 people to the planet every 12 years i don't think that those adaptations are happening fast enough. sound sumo who knows who. you choose. to.

see most of. the new. shows this to see where. the. you. know the. me. right back to you wrote about my dog marty at the time who passed away he made me think about family more than in this year small sense he was a bad technically labeled a bad dog we got go and had a great relationship together and he became very happy and became

a totally different dog and i kind of learned what love could do for something for someone and that was kind of has projected me to where i sit in my life and that song is probably my favorite song i've ever written the greatest love song i think i could ever write i mean we're happy and that's the thing and again it goes back to that whole idea that there's no reason to bring more kids world i feel like bringing children of the world is suffering in the world and when you take things that are in need love them you're. no use in them it's something else that you need to give the love to we do our own thing we enjoy our lives he plays music 4 nights 5 nights out of the week we like to sleep 10 yeah that's really i wish to have that's really meant you don't spend money on think it's very convenient to have it so it's a very small part of it but it is very convenient and the kids are very lucky my parents are amazing people they took care of me is so will give me so much load they're still given so much that it's amazing. and i really didn't have that i had

more of like. people telling me my mom telling me my grandma telling me like i don't have kids is the biggest mistake you could make you know and that probably a part of it you know. i feel like. my own grandmother my own mom everybody you know that was generations before us didn't have a choice and they were pressured into it it was like you had to grow up have babies there was no other there was no other option so i'm going to take full advantage of busy having a choice and not feeling like i have got to have kids or there's no other way it's a privilege really to be able to not be shunned for having this choice i know a lot of people they would feel incomplete if they didn't have kids and they get

pressure from family and. just pressure from everyone around them because everyone else is having kids so there's still a lot of places mostly like smaller towns are more concerned of towns that's all going to have a lot of babies. i think there's some return all instinct in women because they definitely quince you know while like feel this need to lake. hold the baby bird like you know that baby fever thing i feel like that's a pretty hormonal thing and it's emotional thing and it's not super realistic you know there's this feeling that like the only thing you do with your life that you leave behind is your your child and the predecessors and all that and i don't i don't agree with that i think. again everything you do has an effect on the planet around you the world the people and not having kids for me i feel like a better suited for that i feel like i bring more george world without having

responsibilities that i'm not really feeling fit to take her or fit to deal with i feel. more time to write songs to make music i do i think it makes a difference i think this is this community right here in longmont colorado to religion and. i have some friends that really. kind of overwhelming the way that they feel about when we get together on the agency and. that's so worth it to me. that's hurt like 10 months old we were at a canyon lands. heard about a year and a half in like 3 that's her mom karen this is when karen zoe came to

live with me here in this house he was 2 and a half from them. and they had lived here. for a half years now i do i do not have children i have never been married i've been single all my life i'm really not very relationship oriented i identify primarily as gay but even without like a sahm not very relationship oriented and i just never felt very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of suffering for them d.n.a. has made as very competitive by necessity that's just how species evolve and the strongest survive and oftentimes that involves unimaginable cruelty. i am sure that we need to stop it from continuing to grow because it's like you put

you. in a bath a warm water with a little bit of sugar and they just keep periphery do seem put it out alcohol and till they have polluted their environment so much that they die it's kind of sad that we don't have any more control over our selves in our environment the little one cell the store going to isms. we're working to run physics to the. zoe my god i have taken care of since she was just a few hours old she's like the best thing that ever happened to me in my life she's still a big part of my life although she and her mother have gotten their own place to live and gotten on with life which was our plan always but you know after a half years of being here when they left that was a bittersweet moment bitter because you can become very attached to both of them i

did. in the big 10 years and crossed i started 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what i've been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 experts fight it out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option $25.00 text birds. one red rose another suggestion geopolitical jeopardy parity no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner but to me it was one of my guess i can do this campbell after

politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the bow tie you know that is too much. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family who were working. there wasn't it was bad you know much worse objectively day but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hope. there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn

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merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room 6. 1000000 new. or ready used. that was weird. would do it to her children i would not worry i don't think my child would like me because in my childhood my mother my biological mother tried very very hard to be the best parent she could and to raise me to be the best person i could be and. i ended up not liking her and i don't like her as a person and. that inst that fact has instilled

a belief in me that even if i tried the hardest i possibly could to create. a nice individual. foster. a valuable person to send out into the world. that they still would not. like me as a person. of half. bottles.

we met in 2001 here in the united states at work and was no 1st so at 17 years i decided to have children when i was in my early fifty's mike you know you didn't go the right way. my spiritual search continued and i wanted to have more to. to change careers to find balance in life to find happiness

and to find some spiritual answers for myself so i feel that having a child would be an obstacle rather than help. these are all waiting pictures and. if you do you. will go. i still love you of course. that is. in the 3rd world but still a matter of survival a person must have many children in order for some of them to take care of him or her when they are all. in the well developed world and well developed countries there is a very good social support system so you would have your retirement the government will take care of you and you would be much better off without children you could retire earlier you would have more savings. it was so think it's a lifestyle and it's very expensive to raise

a child human states if you want to give good indication it's that list of $1000000.00 to make them. i think of the so that not to have children in my twenty's when i realize that life will start. that suffering in some form as a guarantee to everybody well happiness is not and you just did not want to bring a new life into this world. i don't know that i regret it i am hearing you you always have a thought then perhaps i'm missing out on something. and certainly my father says he thinks i'd be exceptional mother and we'd be exceptional parents but i think it's harder today to not work as a whine because i think the cost of living stunk up some much but it was covered with no board work over it completely completely would you stay home and raise children potentially i think based on my experience working with children and the

children that. add on one parent home seem to d. alarm more what better behaved better communicators just seems to be alone more balanced i think because they had a parent they're highly involved with long story sure we just kind of kick the can down the road if you will it's a you know maybe later later just never happen for us but whether it was careers or where we've had a lot of ups and downs with careers and pauses i'm unemployment or career changes and geographic location moves and cut all those things just delay delay and next thing you know you're here in the or upper forty's and mere and in you're happy with your spouse and where you are i i i would save it most of our friends if if they don't have children whether they're married or single most of them have dogs or cat fur must part dogs and we find that all of us think the our dogs are like are babysit i do think the bit people are as there's more and more people those

more more trafficked there's more more congestion there's not as much opportunity be out an open spaces and finding those things that i think really help us relax for me it's being with my dark it's being outside every day and if there's less a lasts natural resources if we lose the national park see if we lose those open spaces that i think are key to human balance i think you will see a lot more aggressive behaviors in your debility and impatiens the more dense the world gets the more angry i think people get and that's unfortunate for me personally i not regretted not having children i think really you know have a good bobbin ourselves and were able to strength and that and put time energy into each other without having him to have you needing to put time energy move the children as well my name is low and i have

a master's in psychology and. i've been writing nonfiction and researching the childfree choice and 2 books that i've written related to that topic. and the 2nd one is called the baby. i don't have any regrets because it's not having children has allowed me the freedom in my life to create the life that i want and have the adventures of i have had a career that i've wanted to pursue and i've been able to do so many more things i think than i would have been able to do if they really had been at the central focus of. the title is fact or fiction childfree couples are happier than

a couple of kids. used to be. a big debate. there isn't one. that's my. asking the question why does society find the child free choice so hard to accept bad lead to my book baby matrix and 2 assumptions and beliefs that society holds that judges the child free choice where where i landed was a set of believes that have been with us for generations and it's collectively called. and listen just means the x. saltation of parenthood motherhood birth and putting it on a pedestal and our society's been doing that you can go back to the roman times that it's been pushed into our brains in our like our social and cultural hardware

of what we're supposed to be in supposed to do that people think. these beliefs are true 3 powerful to some sions is if you don't have the desire to have children there's something wrong with you as a person there's something wrong with you psychologically something wrong with you in terms of you haven't figured out your 1st specially for women your female identity something's wrong there there's also the assumption that we're biologically wired to want children there's absolutely no evidence to support that so there is of course evidence that we have biological processes going on if for pregnancy at the time of birth but no biological processes innately that create this somehow desire to have children and a 3rd powerful one is that by raising children that's when you find true fulfillment in life. they're all myths. in my research one thing i

continue to notice is that there's pressure so it's not so much a fear the childfree have as much as the experience from others who want them to do what they did so they others loved ones their family members they can put different kinds of pressure on a childfree couples for example to make them feel guilty for not bringing grand kids onto the sea not doing what they did so that they will have a bond of even closer bond because they will have this thing called parenthood when i was researching the baby matrix i looked at the issue of what if you're old and you have no children will you be old and lonely what will life. and what i've found from reading what has already been study is what people find in their golden years

or their elder years in terms of their well being what's most important that helps them have a positive well being is that they are financially secure so that when they're retired they basically have enough money to live and also that their partner is alive so it didn't really rest on. depending on their children for them to be happier in their older years.

i decided to change my mind to try to become a mother for a number of reasons of course one reason was a lot of pressure from relatives also i don't really want every major change in my life. i started thinking it would be at least one good reason for me to create another school in this world into this world. to me and that i wanted to raise person so to speak a new generation i wanted to raise my child from the mainstream i wanted to be progressive parents. and i wanted to share with my child the only spiritual things spiritual. me and my husband felt

by they see each with a lot of struggle i wanted to share this information with my child. or. i think. that's very special actually that's unusual decoration and creates previously i used to leave mostly for myself and now i get the chance you've. given advice to give. my wife. i'm going to be through with you just to get. to help people so i came to this world to be useful. because taking care of her and provided for the family and me because. of a lot of happiness and lots of fun. there is. much more on our house right now when

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middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. will make this manufactured consent to step into the public wealth. when the ruling class does protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is really. from them. from. the from from.

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to watch out internationally we can good morning headlining the u.s. state department confirms it to tend to the broad of the captain all the other radios at the center of a diplomatic rouse that could seize the best of all about that coming up we'll. also talk to south africa's xenophobic why it's continuing that we're following those businesses are being looted in the capital johnnies but i've got postponed that we have people live to you just everything you had invested. do you think it's going to get lists i'm going to sleep at times to school bus to school about some residents of a neighborhood in jerusalem a few areas south of the u.s. embassy this started to build a huge taria run its new territory which they say blocks the view of the. eye.